I’ve found a solution to these times that will work for me, and perhaps be helpful to all of you. It’s the example of the hummingbird.
Wild Animals I Have Known
Seton’s animals remind me of how essential that bit of wildness is to us, not only in the precious few wild animals nearby but as an essential bit of our own souls.
A Perhaps Hand: Art and Crisis
Even now with our country in a state of hysteria over the goings on in Washington, we can’t seem to summon the will, or the skill, to write plays—or fiction, or poetry, or paint, or sculpt—in ways that would be relevant to our crisis.
What a day what a day what a day
Here, in the blessed city of Holy Faith, Santa Fe, there was the biggest, happiest, most determined march.
Light in a Dark Time
There are roses blooming even in the darkness of this December.
Sleepless in Santa Fe
The excitement of the season plus a few flush-inducing angers led to one of my rare sleepless nights, here in the mountains north of town.
The Blue Bubble
Our blue bubble here in New Mexico may be where we are all heading as we fight our way our of this crisis.
How to Celebrate
What a party it was!
Over the Hills and a Great Way Off
In the midst of the confusion and chaos of this presidential race, I’m comforted by my daily walk to the pond.
Renewed
Perhaps even the natural cycles we have abused to such a great degree have an innate strength and will to survive not only human depredations but the disorders of our disordered climate.